Lake v. Zavala County Democratic Executive Committee

This Court on February 26, 1962, granted Relator, Clyde A. Lake, Jr., leave to file his petition for writ of mandamus, directing certain Democratic Party officials to place his name as a candidate for the office of *220County Commissioner, Precinct No. 2, of Zavala County, Texas, on the official ballot for the primary election to be held May 5, 1962. The respondents are Hon. R. A. Taylor, Jr., Chairman of the Zavala County Democratic Executive Committee, and J. R. Barker, Cecil Holt, E. M. Holdsworth, W. D. Cornett, Henry Volz and Earl King, members of said Committee.

The material facts are…